Michon Etienne: La Venus de Milo. Paris July 1900 First edition, in 4to, contemporary original paper covers rubbed front cover detached, complete 69p., published in the scientific Revue des etudes Grecques, few pages crudely opened, text clean and bright, published together with other scientific studies, overall in very good condition. Etienne Michon (1865-1939) was a French art historian assistant curator of Louvre Museum from 1899 to1919. As the famous Venus of Milo was the most important exhibit of the Museum and its acquisition was already then heavily contested by the Greeks,he tried to gather all available information, from the archives of Louvre about the discovery of the statue and the details of its condition when reached the Museum at the beginning years of the Greek revolution. After Marcellus account,who was present in Milos, Michon account is actually one of the most important testimonies for several aspects of this case, as if the statue had hands when discovered,what damages had when arrived etc.Extensive use of French archives in a case which still today has many unresolved points.Detailed presentation of what seems to have happened in Milos in 1820 and after. An invaluable publication, almost unobtainable today in its original edition, which rose noise that time and Michon was later obliged to publish a second memoir in 1906.